The Relationship Between Government, Economics, and Freedom!

By Kariem Abdul Haqq

The Freedom Formula

Limited Government + Free Enterprise Economics + Personal Responsibility + God Consciousness = Freedom!

The Slavery Formula

Statism + (Socialism, Communism) + Irresponsibility + Atheism = Slavery, Poverty and Death!

Prosperity or the elimination of poverty is a by-product of freedom. A by-product does not have its origin in itself. It has its origin in something superior to it. Therefore, freedom (limited government, free-market economics, personal responsibility, and God Consciousness) is the origin and should be the primary goal and focus if humans want to eliminate poverty.

A communist (socialist) system can be changed back to a free market economic system by reversing the ten planks outlined in The Communist Manifesto. The more they are reversed, the freer the market forces will become.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669858935

Kariem Abdul Haqq

Kariem Abdul Haqq lives in North St. Louis County with his faithful and loving wife Marilyn and his beloved son Idris. He obtained a B.S. Degree in Economics from Missouri University – St. Louis (1980) and a Dual Master’s Degree in Finance and International Business from Webster University (1989). He has had a passion for the study of free market economics for a number of years. It started with a search for economical solutions for the problems confronting black people in particular and the world in general. He studied socialism at first, but he soon realized that it demonstrated a lack of objectivity, sincerity, and integrity to study just one perspective. So Kariem Abdul Haqq started studying free market economics, and that is when answers started coming. Understanding how the economic and material world works was like taking off dark sunglasses, and everything seemed so much clearer. He came to the conclusion that the proper knowledge and application of good economic theory can eliminate poverty, eliminate moral decline, lessen racism, reduce crime, prevent wars, and establish peace and justice. His objectives have been to seek truth wherever it is found and advocate freedom, justice, and equal opportunity for all. He believes in studying the past, living the present, and planning for the future. His motto is: “great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people.” Kariem A. Haqq has written another book entitled The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Manual. This manual focuses on the ANTI-slavery movement in America, starting with the Quakers and the Founding Fathers. It ends with the Abolitionist Movement and the Reconstruction Era. It is hoped that it will give proper respect and honor to the brave souls who, with our Creators’ help, unleashed overwhelming powerful forces to break the chains of bondage for four million slaves and their descendants. Kariem A. Haqq is an author and the founder of the 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement. It is based upon the author’s monumental book. This Movement is to promote a celebration week that educates and celebrates the beginning of freedom for ALL (and not just some) American citizens. The 13th Amendment marks the first time in American history that ALL law-abiding Americans were legally freed.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all freedom lovers and freedom fighters—past, present, and future.

Special acknowledgment is due to some exceptional men for their commitment and dedication to the struggle for freedom, justice, and equal opportunity (under the limited rule of law and free enterprise economics).

First among giants in the field of government is Frederic Bastiat, the Frenchman who gave us a small but super powerful book called THE LAW. It is a precious classic and a book that should be in every home, everywhere. To add substance and strength to this present book, the author has taken the liberty to interlace it with many quotes from Frederic Bastiat’s own works.

Then there are Robert Welch and John F. McManus. Robert Welch gave us the little Blue Book, and John F. McManus gave us the filmstrip, An Overview of our World (accompanied by its text in book form). Mr. McManus’s filmstrip and the book about the five forms of government and the five types of economic systems, which the author saw and read many decades ago, had a major impact on his life. They have stuck in his mind ever since the first viewing and reading and are the foundation of this book.

When this author was trying to find his way, he went down many roads back in the day. Many were dead-end streets. In his late teens, he got involved in the Civil Rights Movement. It led him from a protest mentality to a revolutionary state of mind. Right in the heart of the American ghetto, he found himself reading the little Red Book by Mao Tse-tung, the little Black Book by Kwame Nkrumah, the little Green Book by Muammar Gaddafi, the Communist Manifesto, and a lot of other socialist’s literature.

While expressing his sympathies for the Marxist revolutionary ideology, this author was given another little book titled, None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen. It opened his eyes and challenged his way of thinking to the point that he sought other books to gain more knowledge and understanding.

So when the little Blue Book by Robert Welch was presented to him, it would have shown a lack of sincerity, integrity, and courage for him not to read it, especially if objectivity and truth were what he was truly seeking.

The previous books dealing with socialism and revolutionary false data represented one extreme, and the little Blue Book represented the other. It was exactly what this author needed to balance his thinking and cross-check the information he had been receiving from many other nefarious sources. It proved to be the nemesis for his previous orientation toward communist and socialist propaganda and rhetoric, as well as the antidote needed for his previously chosen path of miseducation, lies, and deception.

Another great scholar and freedom fighter that the author wishes to recognize is the legendary Leonard E. Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. (FEE). Through his great effort to organize an educational system that would teach those who had an undying love for the freedom philosophy and thirst and hunger for the truth, his name and fame should live in the hearts of all who love freedom, justice, and equal opportunity. He had a great and positive influence by introducing many to men like Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig Von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Friedrich A. Hayek, G. Henry Weaver, etc. These men, along with him, authored many great books (precious gems) on the relationship between government, economics, and freedom.

Last but not least among the giants in the field of Economics was Merrill Jenkins Sr. He was the founder of the Monetary Realist Society out of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Jenkins gave the world the greatest book on economics that the author has ever read, Money, the Greatest Hoax on Earth. He will always be dearly loved and profoundly missed by him and those who were fortunate enough to be by his side. This author would like to also take the privilege and honor to say that Merrill Jenkins Sr. was his personal friend and mentor.

Merrill’s book is, for the most part, based upon accumulated knowledge. He stood on the shoulders of many great historical scholars of economics who came before him. However, he was able to see with an extraordinary feat of analytical power, something that others missed. And that something was the true meanings, natures, and functions of money and interest and their destructive effects on humanity as a whole. With that understanding, he was able to reform the entire subject of economics.

Merrill Jenkins Sr. was a genius. When it came to economics, his mind was penetrating, his focus was singular, and he did not back down from speaking the truth and delivering the facts to anyone. If a person wants to have the best understanding of economics, then Money the Greatest Hoax on Earth by Merrill Jenkins Sr. is the path to take.

Freedom is not a system. But the right ‘system’ (or form) of government and the right ‘system’ of economics contribute very much to the reality of freedom.

The heart and soul of The Relationship between Government, Economics, and Freedom are drawn, one way or another, from these men of genius. Their research and hard work laid the foundation for this book. And for that, the author is honored to give thanks and show gratitude for their role in helping him with a better understanding of the nature and the proper role of government, a clearer knowledge of economics (and money and interest), and their relationship to freedom. May God reward them for their good and for their contributions to those of us who are seekers of the truth.

Leonard E. Read, Founder of FEE stated it this way: Seekers after Truth should not be bound by who sponsors any idea – Truth being its own witness…. there is no place for idolatry in the freedom philosophy. With that in mind, the author only asks one to carefully read this book, compare, and verify the information.

"The state is that great fiction by which everyone

tries to live at the expense of everyone else."

Frederic Bastiat, The Law

Preface

Understanding the correlation between good government and good economics in terms of their effects on freedom, justice, and equal opportunity can abundantly benefit any individual, community, or nation.

Logical thinking and real life are not two separate orbits. Logic is for man the only means to master the problems of reality. What is contradictory in theory, is no less contradictory in reality. No ideological inconsistency can provide a satisfactory, i.e. working, solution for the problems offered by the facts of the world.

This book will take complex human relationships and break them down into basic and simple logic that any common man or woman reader can easily understand.

It will provide an overview of the relationship between good government, sound economics, and freedom that can withstand the history of civilizations from the beginning of human existence through the ages.

The truth will set people free, but lies will keep them in bondage. This book will enlighten those who seek to understand causes and do not start and stop only at the effects. Shakespeare (Hamlet) stated it this way: And now remains that we find out the cause of this effect; or, rather say, the cause of this defect, for this effect defective comes by cause.

This book is for those who believe in and seek truth and freedom. For, what cannot be found in human freedom cannot be truth. It is for those who seek to understand the laws of God, the natural laws of the universe, and the laws of human nature and to build their government forms and economic systems in alignment with them. They are the ones who pursue knowledge, wisdom, and justice…and they leave no stones unturned!

It is a book for the new and up-and-coming future leadership – Thinkers! Visionaries! The Patiently Consistent!

"If any man seeks for greatness, Let him forget

greatness and ask for truth, And he will find

both."

Horace Mann

Introduction

"The solution to the problems of

human relationships is to be found in liberty."

Frederic Bastiat, The Law

Mankind studies religion! Mankind studies politics! Mankind studies economics! Mankind explores all sorts of disciplines! But the common denominator that makes all of them succeed is Freedom!

Religion is man’s relationship to his Creator (worship that leads to survival and salvation). Law (Justice, government, and politics) is man’s relationship with man. And economics is man’s relationship to the land (natural resources).

It is essential that mankind have spiritual, political, and economic freedoms to advance. All three areas of discipline are vast in scope and depth. They also interact with each other and overlap one another in many ways.

Each can take years of study alone for one to become an expert. It is even more challenging to integrate all three without losing either of their respective truths and principles.

There are five major religions in the world: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Most of the world’s population professes one of these five world religions.

There are five basic forms of government that can exist or have ever existed throughout the history of humanity. They are Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, and Anarchy.

And there are three types of economic systems that have existed throughout history. These three include:

1.Free Market Economics (commonly known as capitalism)

2.Socialism with its many shades (Feudalism, Mercantilism, Fascism, Nazism, mixed economy)

3.Communism (which can never get past the stage of socialism)

The last two are a combination of government and so-called legislated planned economics.

This book will not focus on religion, which is man’s relationship to his Creator. Any of the five religions can be compatible with good government and good economics if the people of those respective religions have the understanding, wisdom, and desire to bring good limited government and good free enterprise economics in harmony with their faith.

Religion plus the freedom philosophy equals spiritual, intellectual, and material abundance. This book will focus on freedom and all of its components.

"Man needs to be free in order that he may fulfill the demands of his nature, and his purpose in life." He must be free to serve his Creator properly. Freedom is a political implementation and conservation, or if need be, restoration and extension of the religious precepts of man. Faith and freedom are two sides of the same coin. Religious scholars should also be scholars in the philosophy of freedom.

There are two categories of freedom, the inner and the outer, the spiritual (remedies